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Lol what the fuck are you saying ? Bolchevism was a white men thing like almost any political movement at this time. The idea that you can't be racist against white people is much more recent and it's popularity if not the concept itself comes from the USA


Bolshevism/communism was or is a worldview that divides the population into oppressors and the oppressed. There's no middle ground or nuance allowed in this concept - everyone is in one of those two camps.

The modern variant is that everyone is either "white" or "minority", but these labels have nothing really to do with race despite surface level appearances. They're just relabelings of the same old ideas. That's why the immediate reaction when you point out the illegal racism of woke people is they say "you can't be racist against white people because they're in power". That makes zero sense when interpreted literally because it's a direct statement of Bolshevik ideology, just with s/capitalist oppressors/white people/. The original formulation was wrong but at least coherent, whereas the modern formulation is completely nonsensical.

That's why so many people understand that the word "white" doesn't mean the skin color. It means anyone who stands opposed to leftism. If you look at how black conservatives are treated you can see this immediately. Just a few weeks ago a black pastor in the Church of England was fired (by a bunch of old white men) because he insisted that England wasn't in fact institutionally racist. By arguing that, he made himself unapologetically "white" in the eyes of the woke bishops and thus they had no moral difficulty with firing him. This sort of thing is commonplace.


Only if you count jews as White.




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